Characterization of smoke and dust episode over West Africa: comparison of MERRA-2 modeling with multiwavelength Mie–Raman lidar observations

Veselovskii, Igor; Goloub, Philippe; Podvin, Thierry; Tanre, Didier; da Silva, Arlindo; Colarco, Peter; Castellanos, Patricia; Korenskiy, Mikhail; Hu, Qiaoyun; Whiteman, David N.; Pérez-Ramírez, Daniel; Augustin, Patrick; Fourmentin, Marc; Kolgotin, Alexei

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-949-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-949-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-949-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

Research article

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16 Feb 2018

Research article |

| 16 Feb 2018

Characterization of smoke and dust episode over West Africa: comparison of MERRA-2 modeling with multiwavelength Mie–Raman lidar observations

Igor Veselovskii, Philippe Goloub, Thierry Podvin, Didier Tanre, Arlindo da Silva, Peter Colarco, Patricia Castellanos, Mikhail Korenskiy, Qiaoyun Hu, David N. Whiteman, Daniel Pérez-Ramírez, Patrick Augustin, Marc Fourmentin, and Alexei Kolgotin

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RC1: 'Review of MS AMT 2017-342', Anonymous Referee #1, 26 Oct 2017
- AC1: 'Response to Referee 1', Igor Veselovskii, 25 Dec 2017
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 17 Nov 2017
- AC2: 'Response to Referee 2', Igor Veselovskii, 25 Dec 2017
RC3: 'comments, referee #3', Anonymous Referee #3, 28 Nov 2017
- AC3: 'Response to referee 3', Igor Veselovskii, 25 Dec 2017

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (12 Jan 2018) by Omar Torres

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ED: Publish as is (16 Jan 2018) by Omar Torres

AR by Igor Veselovskii on behalf of the Authors (16 Jan 2018)

Short summary

Observations of multiwavelength Mie–Raman lidar during smoke episode over West Africa are compared with the vertical distribution of aerosol parameters provided by the MERRA-2 model. The values of modeled and observed extinctions at both 355 nm and 532 nm are also rather close. The model predicts significant concentration of dust particles inside the smoke layer. This is supported by a high depolarization ratio of 15 % observed in the center of this layer.